PITM - Winners of Previous Competitions

2023
Winner: Tobias Lieberum (Technische Universität München)  "Should We All Work in Sprints? How Agile Project Management Improves Performance”
Runner-Up:  Christian Kaps  (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania) "Privately-Owned Battery Storage – Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity”

2020
Winners (two paper tied for the 2020 PITM Best Student Paper Competition):
Amandeep Singh  (Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania)  "When to be Agile: Ratings and Version Updates in Mobile Apps."
Puping Jiang  (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis) "Blockchain Adoption and Traceability in Food Supply Chain Networks."

2017
Winning: Murat Unal (Georgia Tech Scheller) "Help or Hindrance? The Role of Familiarity in Collaborative Product Development."
Runner-Up:  Evgeny Kagan (Michigan Ross) "Designing Incentives in Startup Teams: Form and Timing of Equity Contracting."

2015
Winner: Tian Heong Chan (INSEAD) "Styles in Product Design"
Runner-Up: Jochen Schlapp (University of Cambridge) "Resource Allocation Decisions under Imperfect Evaluation and Organizational Dynamics"

2013
Winner: Joel Wooten (University of South Carolina)  "The Impact of Visibility in Innovation Tournaments: Evidence from Field Experiments"
Runner-Up: Katrin Eling (Eindhoven University of Technology)  "Performance Effects of Combining Rational and Intuitive Approaches in Making Fuzzy Front End Execution Decisions"